Jimmy Buffett to play at SDSU in March

His "Welcome to Fin Land Tour 2012" includes show at Viejas Arena

Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band are returning to San Diego for their first San Diego area show in four years. Tickets for their Viejas Arena gig at SDSU go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Rob O'Neal)
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Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band are returning to San Diego for their first San Diego area show in four years. Tickets for their Viejas Arena gig at SDSU go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Rob O'Neal)
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After skipping San Diego on his most recent concert tours, Jimmy Buffett is returning here after an absence of four years. His "Welcome to Fin Land" tour will include a March 10 show at SDSU's Viejas Arena. This will mark his first area show in over a decade that is being held at a venue other than Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre in Chula Vista.

If memory serves, this will be Buffett's first show on the SDSU campus since he played at the SDSU Open Air Theatre back in the 1980s. As nearly always, he'll be backed by his trusty Coral Reefer Band.

Tickets for Buffett's March 10 show go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. at all Ticketmaster outlets; via Ticketmaster's charge-line -- (800) 745-3000; and online at ticketmaster.com. The Viejas Arena box office will be open Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon only.

Tickets are priced at $36 to $136 each (plus service charges).

As of this writing, Buffett's SDSU show does not appear on his web site or the Ticketmaster web site. But it was announced by live Nation, the promoter of Buffett's San Diego show.

Meanwhile, many (well, at least this writer) wonder if Buffett will use this vintage Monty Python song as his theme music for this tour (even if Buffett's sunny, idealized "Fin Land" is a lot less literal -- and invokes a much warmer clime and locale -- than Python's does).